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Death Angel The San Francisco, Bay Area Thrash Metal
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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett
has always been a good friend of mine. I lived together
with him for 4 years, and every time we started a party
with for example other bands who had been on tour with
us, we began to jam in his studio for nights on end! And
every time I got the urge again to put together a real
band. At those times I called Rob. As a rule, I only saw
the other guys with Christmas and New Year’s Eve, but
the mutual understanding was still very good. I got to
the point right away, telling him I wanted to make music
again, that I had written the best songs with him. It
was the best thing that could happen to us, and should
it still go wrong we would be able to sit and laugh
about it when we were old and wise. Strange enough, Rob
suggested to let Death Angel rise from the ashes, so we
decided to call the other guys. We got together, had a
drink, and decided we were entitled to a re-examination.
Except for Gus, who wasn’t in for it apparently, we
started rehearsing. Everything went rather well, but yet
it was not the same as before. The mood, the vibe, the
playfulness of the early days was missing. Not everybody
seemed to be heading in the same direction, and the
reunion apparently came a little early. At that time
Dennis and Andrew played in another band. Meanwhile Rob
and I had written some new songs, and after a while
Andrew joined us, while Dennis had an acoustic project
going on with Michael Isaiah, now the bass player of
Swarm. After some time Swarm started to move on. We
wrote more songs all the time, did some loose gigs,
recorded a first demo and started to bloom in the San
Francisco scene. Then all of a sudden we met Jerry
Cantrell, the singer/guitar player of Alice In Chains,
but at that time already playing solo. He was about to
go on tour. We decided to join him across the States,
but released our EP before that.” -
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